“Langchain is Overrated”, and other strategies I exploit to cope with the GPT Hype

Each time I am going on Twitter, I see tens of tweets about cool things individuals are doing with large language models (LLMs), most notably GPT-4. At first, I used to be excited to see a recent technology shake up our world in positive ways. But I worry that much of the present discourse around AI is definitely a way to an end: making a living. For some people, curating the newest state of affairs with AI has change into a source of income. For some others, fueling the hype helps with raising money from clueless VCs. The results of all this can be a poor…